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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗
A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.
My job. I want to get it right.
My own bad prose.
Worrying about my kids, self-doubt and creaky noises.
As devastatingly talented, gorgeous and wise, but I’m not betting on it.
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
Every offended interviewee who thought I was asking hard questions for some personal reason. It’s never personal.
A chihuahua giving you a cuddle.
I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
Anita Rani, Bill Clinton, Clive Myrie, Edwina Currie, Emma Barnett, Joan Bakewell
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